Recent article written for QA Education on Emotional and Academic Wellbeing – are they mutually exclusive? Go to page 5 of this link to read more.
Dr Andrés Fonseca is a consultant psychiatrist with 16 years of clinical experience. He holds an MSc in psychiatric research methodology from UCL and is honorary lecturer at UCL (division of psychiatry) and University of Roehampton (psychology department). He is co-founder
I spent the day on Thursday last week comforting my 16 year old daughter after she opened her GCSES results. I know it’s not an uncommon occurrence to feel disappointed at the results you may have received when you feel you
Who says what is actually appropriate and how do we learn it? I’ve been mulling over this question for the last few weeks in my own life. As my teenagers struggle between finding their own identity and pleasing us, as I
“Nicola has not reached her full potential”, “Nicola could have tried harder”, “Nicola does not apply herself as she could” – anyone else recognise these remarks from your school reports? Yes, not unusual I’m sure. I’ve been pondering the messages we
This week my secondary school where my boys still attend (our daughter left last week) have decided to bring in yet another behaviour modification system. Something they truly seem to believe will change behaviour in the classroom and will make our
A controversial thought I was driving to work a few mornings ago and the news was on. They were talking about decisions to look at whether we have more stringent punishments for parents who mistreat their children in any way. If
Abraham Maslow’s theory know as the Hierarchy of needs has been around since 1943, and published in his paper ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’. If you work with children and young people in any capacity, it’s probably a theory you’ve come
Last week I attended our first Mental Health First Aid course. As it’s not a course I’ve participated in myself I decided to attend along with the other education staff in our area who’d booked on the course. It was such
How long is long enough to provide the support that vulnerable children need in order to develop? It’s a constant question we ask about our own children, but also from the many educators we work with. It seems that we’re always
I’ve been thinking about food and being hungry for some weeks now, not just because I’ve been on a detox…but because it’s come up in lots of different places I’ve been in. Understanding how our bodies work, in terms of our
With the focus on Mental Health in Children and Young people recently we have started commenting in various publications. The first being a guest blog post for freelance journalist Erica Crompton. To see the blog follow this link.
We were featured in the January 2017 edition of Education Today talking about trauma and Attachment in education. To see the article follow this link – go to Page 19.
In November 2016 we were privileged to be invited to the Black Country Chamber of Commerce Awards evening. We were nominated in the category of Outstanding Achievement Award for which we felt very honoured. Even though we are a National training
We’ve been focusing on Mental Health for this month and I wanted to end this series with a story from a friend of mine called Naomi. Below you will see a video of Naomi telling her story and also a podcast
Teresa May announced recently her commitment to invest in helping schools to recognise Mental Health issues in their students. A long overdue focus, in my opinion. Having seen for the last five years the increase in mental health related issues in
This week in our office we’ve been doing a social experiment based on reward systems in schools. It has been a focus for me over the last years to try and understand our current behaviour modification obsession in education and how
Worrying is not just an adult thing. Many children and young people are showing more signs of anxiety, statistics tell us. In a recent article in the Telegraph it was stated that the number of young patients treated in hospitals for
